Where does “assignat” come from?

assignat (English) comes from French assignat, from French assigner, from Old French assigner, from Latin assignō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en — in.

assignat (English): A banknote used during the French Revolution, on...

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A banknote used during the French Revolution, on...

Ancestry of “assignat”, step by step

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	French	assignat	assignat
2	French	assigner	to assign
3	Old French	assigner	to assign
4	Latin	assignō	to appoint to, assign, distribute, allot, allocate
5	Latin	ad-	to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
6	Latin	īn-	un-, non-, not
7	Latin	în	in, at, on, upon, from (space)
8	Latin	en	lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
9	Proto-Italic	en	in
10	Proto-Indo-European	h₁én	in

Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →Every word from Latin īn- →Every word from Latin ad- →